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Ml CJttSDAT BT anl Proprietor- 75BC11Y, N. c. r- m rstt erf DTI OM neiear.. .. Six Months...... I-00 Tore" Months.... . ... .... 5v 5f .Ydvertisia:: lUtes by contract, reastinubit. Entered at the Pjk Office at Salisbury u BecoQil-cUsj matter. - The New York Herald states that it was the opinion of many -who saw the recent naval review in the North River that Borne of the luxurious steam yachts of New York's millionaires were the most beautiful and graceful of all the craft afloat. If inventors go on making armor plate more and more invulnerable and guns which throw a projectile with greater and greater velocity, the time may come when a cannon ball will have to be made of something about as hard as a diamond to stand the impact and will coat nearly oh much. The New York Times philosophizes thus: Jufst as the women, after long coaling, have decided to shorten their gowns, the men, perverse creatures, suddenly drop the skirts ot their coats almost to their ankles. And how very funny they loo,' so -confusing, too; one is never quite sure if it is a foot man or just a plain man walking in front of ht r. In Australia, it is said, telephonic tnes.sagesj have b;;en successfully trans mitted over wire -fences. The man who thought of this device utilized the top wire of the fence and carried th wire across tho road on poles. In this way he connected one station with an other at a cost of $3 per mile and, as he carries an instrument in his buggy, he is able at any point tp communicate with either station. Chicago opened her big show with a population, visitors not included, oi about 1,250, 000, or about GOO, 000 be hind that of New York. Philadelphia's estimated population is 1,160,000; Brooklyn's, 1,000,000; Baltimore's, 511,500; Boston's, 475,000; Cincin nati', -32", 000 ; Cleveland's, including a recently annexed suburb, 322,000; Han Francisco's, 320,000; Buffalo's, 300,000; Washington's,' 203,000, end Detroit's 250,000. Most of these are moderate ofiicial estimates, and they show that the chief cities of the country are growing with even more than theii usual rapidity. Harness marks, physical or mental, come to most men who are busied in doing tho world's work. Even so lighl a tusk as the handling of a pen often leaves its traces upon the fingers. Per . haps the commonest result of constant ly writing with a pen is the formation of callous spots on the middle finger ol the right hand just where the per crosses and on the first joint of the lit tle finger where it is moving in contact with tho p-iper. Sometimes a disease of the nail of tho middle finger results from the some cause. Any carefully observant person could easily pick oul a penman by examining his right hand. Herr Krupp 's gift of his great 121 ton gun to Chicago is peculiarly generous, maintains the San Francisco Examiner, since ho cannot expect it to lead to anything in the way of orders from this country, and guns are good tash assets in Europe just now. We have adopted the policy of making our own munitions of war, and Krupp has no market here. Herr Krupp has com bined patriotic prudence jwith liber ality. If he had presented his gun to our Government it would have been mounted at New York, and might possibly at some time have been di rected against a German war-ship. At Chicago it can never encounter tny enemy but England, and Krupp is probably willing to take the ckinces of that. John Worth, in ths Nineteenth Cen tury, gives some striking facts about the rapid extermination of the birds of North America. The advent. of the plow and the frame hut of the settler is .gradually driving the feathered tribe from its old haunts, and what nests are spared by the plow are only too often destroyed by prairie fires. The heath hen used to be seen in autumn in packs of from 100 to 200 birds in each ; now the number in a covey rarely exceeds six or eight. The sharp-tailed grouse and the wild tur key will soon follow the bison and the moose into the animalia of the past. Professor Honey asserts in the Chicago Field that in one of the vast breeding colonies alone some 1,000,000,000 pigeons were ''sacrificed to Mammon" during one. nesting sermon, and even allowing for exaggeration the extent of the slaughter is beyond question,' The remedy is not easy to seek. 3Ir. Worth suggests an act of Congress to prevent bird destruction throughout the United Stat a. Thk valise of LonU HalbertsUdt, of Napier vine, 111., who dhxi in Brockville, Canada, two years ago, was sold to a drummer at an auction of unclaimed express packages foi X I ruined m itock worth t!07.000. r j ax Jl 4L During the past five years the sui cides in the Austrian army were equal to a fifth of the total mortality of the army during thin period, ancL,more deaths were due to this than to typhoid fever, pneumonia or consumption. Tho business 'of colonizing Africa with white people goes on apace. An expedition left England some weeks ago f of Mozambique as advance party of settlers who are to colonize some 300 square miles of territory between ' the rivers Zambesi and Sabi. Says the Springfield Union : "Now that the Canadians are refusing United States paper money except at a dis count, Americans visiting Canada should provide themselves with Cana dian money, which can be purchased hero at a discount The discount busi ness can be made to work both ways." According to Charles D. Kellogg, the General Secretary of the Charity Organization Society, the enormous sum of $9,000,000 is annually spent in New York City in charity. Two and one-quarter million dollars, he esti mates, goes to public institutions, four millions to private ones, and the bal ance is distributed by various religious organizations. The correspondent of the Cologne (Germany) Gazette, now in this coun try, tells his readers that every Amer ican wears a diamond pin costing 81200. This suggests to the New York Tribune that it might be very in-( teresting and perhaps amusing, to read the-letters from this country that will le written by foreign newspaper men during the "World's Pair. During the football season of 1832-3 in Great Britain there were twenty-six deaths on the field or resulting from football accidents, thirty-nine broken legs, twelve broken arms, twenty-five broken collar bones, and seventy-five other injuries. Football, adds the New Orleans Picayune, is much more gen erally played in England than here, and every village and hamlet has its team or teams and seemingly its killed or injured. Every now and then, according to the Argonaut, some thoughtless writer descants upon our coming landlessness. But, in fact, all the people of the United States could be lodged in the three States of California, Kansas and Nebrasia without overcrowding, and without producing a greater density of population than we find in England, or in Italy, or in Japan, or in many of tho provinces of China. The two prov inces of Kiang-Su Ngan-Hui, in China, support between them a population rather larger than that of tho United States on a territory less than two thirds of the area of California. It is a curious fact, notes the Boston Herald, that, while the westward move ment of the population has covered no less than 9 degrees of longitude (9 degrees 21 minutes, 7 seconds), this movement has run almost on a straight line, the extreme northern and south ern variation embracing less than one third of a degree of latitude (18 min . utes, 5G seconds). To put the contrast more distinctly, we may say that, while the western movement for the century aggregates 506 miles, the extreme northern and southern variation is a little under twenty -two miles, and the finishing point of the line is only some six miles south of the starting point. The Boston Herald states that poor Baby Ruth Cleveland has been so pes tered by kodak fiends and curious sight-seers, when taking her walks in the rear of the Whito House on fair days, that the President has had to or-' der the gates of the White House grounds to be closed between the hours of 2 and 4, in order that she may take the air undisturbed. It seems that the sightseers, who are mostly women, not content with staring at the baby, in sisted upon kissing her, while some of them, taking advantage of the tempo- rary ' distraction of the nurse, gave tho ' baby candy or opened her mouth to look at her -teeth, or danced her up and down in their arms. One audacious woman actually tried to surreptitiously snip oSa lock of her hair with d tiny pair of scissors. The great Columbian World's Fair has already cost kbout $20,000,000, calculates the New York World. For twenty-one months its creation has em ployed a whole army of laborers, ma sons, plumbers, carpenters, black smiths, builders, engineers, architects, artists, decorators enough to build "a city and to people it. There are nearly seven hundred acres in the grounds and there are 400 buildings there, some of them vast palaces such 03 no Emperor every dreamed of building, and one which covers more than thirty acres of land. More than sixty thou sand exhibitors have taken place, and every Nation under tho sun which has aught of interest in human progress to show is represented there. , The citi zens and corporation of Chicago have contributed $11,000,000 outright and havo lent 5,000,000 more to male the enterprise a success worthy of the gretlness and glory of our time and com Vry. It is estimated that the total outlay, including that of the exhibitors, will exceed $100,000,000. ,, SO LITTLE. Hereafter, when I sleep beneath t! grass in yonder churchyard plot, And what I was, or might have that which Is not, then II tou should come in klndliaess 6tand there by the spot, And sometimes thfck 01 me As If I were not better than tou thought, but that I were less bad, ; M t aow in that dark, dismal grave of mine I should be glad Through all eternity. V 7T. J. Lampton, is New York Sua. "SUMAJH." rT STAXZJET gtbsojt. 1 I ENDEESON, "what's the meaning of ; Sumajh,' eh? Early this morning I was wandering about a mile out o n the Kistapore road, just on the edge of the jungle, you know, and ran across some ten or a dozen natives in a ring around a poor wretch of a leper. Ugh ! he's the first I've seen and he made me feel bad, I can tell you ; I don't want to see any more. " "Hah !" broke in Henderson : "and how do you know the man was a leper, if you had never seen one before, eh?" "Oh, he was a leper right enough- there was a horrible grayish scaley look upon him, and he was bloated and his arms were only stumps and" "That's enough I pass," said Henderson qujckly, with a shudder. V'Well, this leper seemed to be ask ing a great favor of the other fellows imploring them to do something, you know and they didn't want to ; and the poor chappie turned from one to the other and moaned and cried ; and well, upon mv word, Henderson, what with his pitif ul appearance, I felt well I couldn't see quite straight for a little while. And look here; I thought lepers weren't allowed to come near anybody?" "Hm," Henderson's face assumed a puzzling expression, half -pitying, half stern, as he rose from the camp chair in which he was lolling. Placing hi3 hands on my shoulders and looking into my eyes, he went on: "So you want to know the meaning of that word, do you? Let's see; how long have you been grilling in this devil's kitchen, eh?" "Nearly five weeks," replied I, sur prised at the peculiar hardness of his voice ; for Henderson, I had already seen for myself, was big brother to all the children of the cantonment. "So; five weeks." His voice as sumed a satirical tone. "Five weeks and you don't know the language yet ! You're very slow for a competition wal lah. And what did you understand of the conversation between your leper and his friends, eh?" "Why," said I, bridling up some what, "I learned a good bit of the lan guage before I came out, and I know as much of it now, I'll guarantee, as the average man does after he's been here a couple of years." "Modest," dryly ejaculated Hender son, waiting for an answer to his ques tion. "Oh, I understood it all right enough except that blessed word 'sumajh. It was wrapped up in very figurative lan guage calling the earth his mother and the sun his father, and all that sort of stuff, you know. He wanted them to do 'sumajh' for him ; but it seemed as if they were half afraid to do what ever it means. In the end, though, they gave way, and the poor chap was wonderfully pleased, for he held his wasted arms to the sky and invoked blessings on them, and then crouched down and kissed the earth ; and finally burst out into a sort of song that didn't go very far before it faded away into a dismal croak that was painful to listen to. I couldn't stand it any longer, and came away." "So ; that's all you know about it, is it? Well, youngster, take my advice and it's good, too don't poke your nose into the natives' business. Let them alone as much as you can. Culti vate a convenient memory when you're reading the regulations about them. Remember, that the men who make most of those rules don't have to keep them; and between you and me, their knowledge of the theory of govern ment is only excelled by their ignor ance of the practice of it. As for that word you're so curious about, forget it, and don t hear it stand?" again under- With that he went out abruptly. I was greatly perplexed. Half the night I pondered .over Henderson's strange conduct, and wondered why on earth ho should refuse to tell me the meaning of a simple word. I did not care to ask any one else, for fear of its getting to Henderson's ears. Although I was on pretty familiar terms with him, he was my chief, and in addition I had alreauy become much attached to him.. Tho next morning, I tackled him again. "Henderson that word?" He turned and gazed at me with half closed eyes and said deliberately and coldly: "The keenness of your curi osity would do infinite credit to a corporal's wife." He cleared his throat and said testily: "Picnic, picnic; that's what the word means ; he wanted them to treat him to a picnic in the jungle ; and you say they consented. And" he turned on me quite fiercely "why shouldn't they? And look here, my boy, if you say one word about it to any one elso in the canton ment, I'll make it warci for you," I was hurt and angry and gave Hen derson a wide berth for the rest of the day. In the evening I strolled down the Kistapore road. It was against the regulations, for the jungle ran right up to the road and at night there was a certain amount of danger to be feared from the wild beasts that occasionally explored the road, almost " up to the cantonment. But in my brief experi ence I had seen the spirit, if cot the letter of one or twoof the regulations, ignored and I wanted to be alone, to think out the meaning of Henderson's strange words and manner. It was almost the last of the few brief moments of twilight, when, being still some couple of miles from home, I quickened my pace. The night was falling ea only those can understand who have witnessed a TiVhtftJI on the edge of the jungle. No need to tell them how the darkness drops like a heavy blanket nor of the startling transformation of the tangled under- wood and the gigantic grasses, which suddenly become strange monsters en- dowed with life, moving to and fro, now smoothly, now jerkily, pointing with strange fingers ; now uttering husky cries of hate, now jibbermg idiot-like. And the wild mTnfti in the thickness of the interior, how they howl and shriek and cry and moan roars of defiance, screams of pain, trnmpetings of victory ! All made more intense by being subdued, as if the vegetation were unwilling to let the outside world Know of the scenes en acted in that fearsome place. 1 Annfeiea 1 startr! t run. holdm my revolver at the full cock. But my steps were suddenly arrested by the magical appearance, directly in my path, of several lights. - I pulled up sharply, and stood stock-stilL The lights advanced, keeping time with the thumping of my heart. At last I could dimly descry a body of twenty or thir-1 ty natives, several of whom carried torches, which they must have just lighted. I awaited their coming not without trepidation, for I could not imagine what they were about. Just before reaching me, however, they turned quickly into the jungle. They were not nve, paces distant irom me when they left the road, and I felt some surprise at their not having seen me. By a sudden overpowering im pulse of curiosity I started to follow them, in order to learn the meaning of their strange journey. With as little noise as possible I swung round, step ping almost in their footsteps. I had little difiiculty in doing so, for they followed what seemed to be a beaten track. For some hundreds of yards the strange procession went slowly on. Suddenly I heard a stranere noise that thrilled me through and through. There was something about itr too, that seemed familiar; but my brain was excited and refused to recall the sound. It was a kind of moan, half human, half animal. As the natives and I drew nearer it took the character of a chant ; and' then it flashed on me that I had heard the sound before ; it was the leper's voice! The poor wretch was crooning a dismal hymn or invocation, just as he had done when soliciting his relatives to do what I was to my great satisfaction,- about to find out. His low. weak voice rang out stangely clear. "Ohei, Ohei. Mother, my mother Thou only art merciful. Thou only Ohei, Ohei, Brethren, mjt brethren, lead me to my mother ; she' only will welcome, she only will give peace Ohei, Ohei. The voice died away in a moan that mingled with and seemed to rise again in the soft whistling of the long Grasses, as they cuivered with the breath of the wind that presaged the corning rains. I shivered. ; The pf,rtv havme: now arrived at a space which had been cleared of the tangle-wood and grass, abruptly stopped "and formed into a ring. I pressed for ward as near as jl dared, men 1 saw, in the centre of the ring, a large cav itv. perhaps four feet deep, with the earth banked up on either side. The torch-bearers ranged themselves at the head and foot of the hole, which, now that it was in the lieht, I saw to be of oblonsr shape, shelving somewhat at the end nearer to me. The other na tives stood at the sides, four with torn toms and two with little pots of burn ing incense. .The the leper limped out, from the jungle seemingly, and crouched at the shelving end of the hole. I had expected him to appear on the scene, yet when he did so, I could not help giving a bit of a start. Not one o5 the natives looked at the leper, nor did he seem to see them. As soon, however, as he approached, the whole of the na tives set up a cry subdued and dismal beyond description. The burden of it was something: like this : "To Thee who art all knowledge, all power, all love, all hate. To Thee, known only of Thy self. To Thee who art Life and Death. To Thee we bring our brother. He seeks Thee where Thou art. He comes to Thee. He comes to Thee. " Their voices and the noise of the tom-toms died down ; and as they faded away the leper, who had been beating time by nodding his head, crawled down the slope and squatted down at the deep end of the hole. In a shrill, quavering voice that, sounded strangely piercing on the electrically charged air ho took up the refrain. "Ohei, Ohei. Fire of the Light nings, I come. Cloudless brightness of the skv, I come. Winged Messenger of the Mountains, I come, Ohei. I come !" Then, amid more chanting and torn torn beating, two of the natives handed the leper some liquid in a small bowl and some food. After drinking a little . - A ' - Jl of the liquid and eating a little of the food, he cast the remainder into the hole in front of him, accompanying the action with subdued but intense cries. But now several of the natives re tired for a moment, returning with large fiat pieces of wood. With these they started throwing earth' into the hole. The leper did not move. They were going to bury the poor wretch alive ! The thought in all its hideous ness flashed through my brain. For the instant I went as cold as ice and was unable to raise a finger. Only for a moment though ; and then, acting for the second time that night on the im pulse of the moment, I dashed forward, my revolver 6till in my hand, to do what, I could not telL But before I had gone two steps I found myself seized, disarmed, gagged and pinioned. I struggled, or, rather, attempted to struggle, for I could neither move nor utter tne slightest souna. 1 gave my self up for lost. I expected nothing but death, and I remember doing what I had not done for years : I offered up a prayer incoherent and vague ; but never was prayer more fervent. Con trary to my expectation I was only dragged back several paces and tied hand and foot to what I suppose was a Email tree. My captors had bound me with my back towards the leper, appa rently determined that I should see nothing more of - what was going on. However, by screwing my neck round I could just catch sight of the wretched creature in the pit that I now felt cer tain was to be his grave. The horrible sight fascinated me. I had no thought for anything else, -i Even my j xne nomi natives, still singing that sad. monoto nous refrain, were now quickly throw tag the earth round the leper. Quicker and quicker they shovelled, louder and I louder they sang : 'Ohei, Ohei, thy I wish is thine is thine. The four beating the tom-toms threw them down and joinetl in. The earth mounted higher and hisher round the doomed man. It reached his breast ; he waved his poor stumps of arms towards the sky ; he patted the earth with them, as if he were fondling a loved one. It reached his shoulders he bent and kissed it passionately. Oh, that scene ! the natives casting in the earth with frenzied energy ; the torch-bearers standing like bronze statues, their torches throwing a red glare on the leper's head, now fast dis appearing as if , sinking in a pool 01 blood. Then the earth crept up to his mouth, his nostrils. V With a convulsive effort I shut my eyes. In another moment the noise of the shoveling and singing ceased. My eyes involuntarily opened, just in time to see the torch-bearers thrusting their torches' in the earth heaped up over the grave ; they gave an angry splutter and then went out. For an instant there was utter darkness and silence. Then came the crowning horror. A vivid flash of lightning lit up the scene. It seemed to hang over the spot. And while the natives were thus en veloped with the ghastly hue of death. I heard I vow I heard muffled and faint as the shriek of a gagged man, the cry of the leper the echo of a Voice the Echo of a Life! Louder and louder grew that terrible voice ; it roared like a cataract, like a thousand peals of thunder ; it became a thing tangible, palpable filling the uni verse, pressing on my brain crushing it till at last something snapped and I knew no more. v Three weeks afterward t iroke up. I was lying on a bed in my quarters. Henderson was bending over me ; he raised his hand to prevent my speak ing, saying, with a queer little smile : "les, yes keep quiet; a touch of jungle fever, my boy, that's all a trifle heady ; you'll be all right again m a liffv. That "jiffy" was nearly three months. Chambers's Journal. Money May be Too Safe. "I have no doubt that many a fam ily now struggling along under the belief that the father died and left nothing: would be well off could the-? go to the safe deposit vault where the head of the house kept" his valuables, open the door of his particular com partment and carry away its con tents. The speaker was a man who is con nected with an establishment of the kind mentioned. He evidently knew what he was talking about. The safe deposit vaults are a mod ern institution, in them a man, by the payment of 5 or upward annu ally, can, keep his money, jewelry and papers sate irom nre and burglary. Armed guards further protect his prop erty, but even without their presence no gang of burglars could work quick ly enough to despoil the vaults, built, as they are, of steel and granite intc the very backbones of immense build ings. "But the very care of the tenant is the doom of his nearest kin," said the interested gentleman; "he doesn't ex pect to die suddenly, but that mode seems the most general nowadays. No man snould nave ins aiiairs so secret that his loved ones suffer the rest oi their lives by what he considered his forethought. . "A recent case occurs to me. A young man with apparently many years Defore him, suddenly went in sane. He was fond of jewelry, but one night a would-be thief snatched a very valuable scarf-pin the young man wore. After that, though he foiled the high way robber, he would not wear his dia monds, but put them in his safe, undez cthe care of the deposit vaults. "Had he not told me of the incident nobody would ever have known what became of the diamonds. No man puts his name and address in his safe, and the company only knows him person ally and not his relatives." Even savings banks have been able to build handsome edifices with the uncalled-for money deposited by men or women who have disappeared. Take many thousand accounts, and a cer tain percentage of them will never-be called for. They are advertised, but very little results from tho advertise ments, and the bank is the winner. The amounts thus lost to sight ag gregate many hundreds of thousands of dollars. There is a grim fatality about the 'safety" of a vault. New York Journal. Processes Against Disease. According to a summary in the Sat- urday Keview, attempts by bacteriplog- . . ... icai processes to remove irom tne numan system the germs of infectious disease have been made by six different meth ods. The first is by Pasteur's preven tive inoculation, in which a minute quantity of attenuated culture of th virus is administered to produce i light attack of the disease. The sec ond is M. Pasteur's method in rabies, in which a mitigated virus is injected into a person already attacked with the disease, to overtake it. The third is the employment of the virus of a com paratively mild disease to protect against a more severe one, as in vaccination for smallpox. Next is order is the destruction of the disease producing bacteria by the administra tion of antisepttics or bactericides. A fifth method is the re-enforcement of natural means possessed by our sys tems f Or combating disease germs ; by re-enforcing the leucocytes or white blood corpuscles, which destroy bac teria, by means of the injection of the blood of animals insusceptible to the disease ; by raising or lowering the temperature of the body of the patient ; by alterations of diet, climate, or sur roundings ;or by injection of phagocyte invigorators. The sixth method is by. the injection of the 'toi-albumens" formed by the bacteria growing in at- tifickl cultures, as is done in Koch's methl for tuberculosis. That these meth Ida have not proved entirely sat isfactory, end bacteriological treat ment is now apparently at a standstill, is not due, it is thought, to any innate defect in the system, but to some tech- meal detail. Popular bcieacs Month- j I j. Life is a continued story. Self-love it incurably blind. No flower; is jealous of another. Sorrow finds a rainbow in tears. Poetry is an hereditary disease. Poetry is not prose cut to measure. Don't talk your good deeds to death. Thought fulness is the core of char ity. ,. The harvest is nature smiling at thrift. Only the eyes can say unutterable things. I The fool has no fear ; the brave man conquers it. ! After seventy a man isn't anxious to look forward. Action is the fruit of sentiment. It has no flower. A man's words are not the index of his character. A hypocrite is one-third thief and two-thirds liar. A man's great deeds are always greater than himself. When a woman is weak she is sweet ; when she is strong she is bitter. The bigger crowd a man is in, the harder he finds it to fight himself. There are twenty-six letters in the alphabet, the largest of which is L A man is either a fool or a knave who buys without the means to pay. A wise man knows much; a wiser man tells much ; the wisest man keeps his mouth shut. Some people are born good ; some achieve goodness and soma have good ness thrust upon them. A dictionary comes about as near de fining what love is as a grain of sand comes to filling the ocean. The world is becoming more modest a3 it becomes more civilized ; time was when the naked truth did not shock people. . Remarkable Self Sacrifice. ' The recent Thrun insurance fraud in Wisconsin recalls to William A.2 Pink erton a curious life insurance story fronl Oregon in which the supposed at tempt at fraud was inspired by the ro mantic dream of a French novelist, This is the story told by Mr. Pinker ton ; "A young man living near Portland insured his life for $10,000 for the ben efit of his sister. After a few pre miums had been paid his death was re ported to the company. It had been caused by a fall from a high tree. Something in the circumstances aroused the suspicion of the company, and I was retained to make a personal inves tigation. I found that the young man and his immediate family were all poor. They lived from hand to mouth and were greatly in need of money. He was of a retiring, dreamy, romantic disposition, and very fond of his sis ter. There was no reason for him to climb the tall tree, nor when he got there any particular reason why he should tumble out of it. He was strong and hearty. His family were deeply grieved, but everything in a world pointed to the theory that he had corn mited suicide that the sufferings of his people might be relieved by the insur ance money. The thing was to prove it; "Inquiry as to his habits developed the fact that he -was a patron of the public library. I got a list of the books he read. They were mostly of a philosophical character, tending to atheism. Among the rest was a French novel which he had borrowed several times. I took it to tho hotel to read and kill time. In it I found the full explanation of his suicide. The hero of the book was a poor and romantic young man. He insured his life for the benefit of his wife, and then went on an expedition to the Alps, and at the proper point made a misstep and rolled down a precipice, so laying his plans as to leave hope that he would escape unhurt and be enabled to go away from the country. His idea was to relieve the beneficiaries by means of the insurance money. He couldn't do it by his labor. The novelist made hia action a noble self sacrifice. The Ore gon young man who emulated his ex ample left himself no chance of escape, and he was killed. We fitted the twe coses together, and the result was the insurance policy wasn't paid." Chi cago Times. Snow. Snow falls to the earth in flakes be cause it is water solidified in etarlike crystals, each snowflake being usually made up of several crystals, which are excessively light on account of the large quantity of air among the frozen particles. The snow crystals arise from the slow passage cf the water vapor of clouds when the temperature falls be low freezing point, into the solid con dition, the fairylike transformation taking place by the molecule or small est independent particles o! the water grouping themselves with the utmost mathematical regularity around differ ent centres. Each crystal of snow, as of anything else, is therefore a more or less perfect geometrical solid. The most complete show crystals are formed in a clear at mosphere, where there is nothing to retard the gradual process of crystal lization or molecular construction. Bain, on the other hand, being a liquid, 4 falls in drops. London Tid Bits. The Use of a Thumb. "I am right handed, and until now 1 never -knew how important to me was the thumb of my left hand, "said Oliver Golding, of San Francisco, at the Southern. 1 got a run round, which is a sort of second cousin to a felon, on my thumb the other day, and it seems to me that 1 jab it against everything that there is hard and sharp, and just that particular part of it between the quick and the nail that is sorest. If I put my hand in my pocket I have to wince. If I open a drawer, bang goes the run-round and against some pro jection of my desk. "If I have to pick up a paper or an envelope it fceeins to me that I must do it with that hand and not with the aoucd one. - 'I was always under the impression previous to this that I did everything with the right hand, but now I see that I do most of my reaching after things with the hand that has the sore thumb on." St. I lis Globe-Democrat. We pass each other on life's banaaet stairs New guests are mounting t the festal light, VTMla we descend together t the night. J Close xnuSed 'gainst the outs: Me wintry alrsH 1 as they climb-' They tread upon our shado' With quick strong steps to )in the crowd and crush. We see in sparkling eye id speaUaf .brash, How expectation gilds the eo Young forms go by us tossing In brave apparel, tints of flow Of blossom patohea by the sum! With sheen of silk, and gems rays. Knew we such seat, tru9 heart f whea mount ing wp? Sach hast to lift tho chalice to our lips, To learn if pleasure sweeter is in sips, Or, when, with manhood's taint w drain tho cup? Shall wo stand by and carp at these, and say " "Go, giddy ones, and motb-41fce fire your wings Pleasure is pain, and laughter sorrow Shall we speak thus, who Oaco were youngr as they? Farewell! We've supp'd. Lifos winy was keen and bright 1 Old friends nove by and gain ths ontet door; The wind blows buffets with a northern roar, . - Lai past the shadows gleams tho distant light! W. W.' H&st en. PITH AND POINT. A furor Oysters on the half shell. Horse-sense An ability to sa v neigh. Truth.' Tis only when they shadow us ' 'Com parisons are odious. Judge. Smallpox is not any more contagioui than a good example. Ham's Horn. Don't stay up late on a lark If yoo want to rise with it. OCew York rie corder. Things are nearly always what they seam to be to the sewing-girl. Buffalo Courier. All work and no play makes the girl with a piano popular next door. Bing hamton Leader. Truth travels straight ahead, but s lie will stop at every corner and beat' it. Elmira Gazette. The cynic is very frequently a man who couldn't make a dollar at any other job. Somerville Journal. Wheel "You make me tired." Blacksmith "Bun around again, please." Detroit Fred Press. Book-borrowers aro reminded that the print of their nails doesn't improvo the typography of a work. Truth. As a rule it is difficult to persuado an individual who rides a hobby that he had better take a walk. Blizzard. Its nice to have tho girl you love present you with a present. But wnen you cun t mako out it's-uso it isn't quite so pleasant. t ' ruck, i A business left to run itself, as l Ulf, UUCBU b X UU TCI V IUUIZ. JL UU IOUU . 1 i l , riv " who stops it is the Sheriff. Troy Press. - When two people get mad at each other, each begins to think how much ho has done for the other. A'.hisoa Globe. ( It is not so strange that the sea breaks on the shore--the sailors gener ally do the same thing. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Some people have tronble in finding words for their thoughts ; others hav trouble in finding thoughts l it their words. Washington Star. I Tia here their confidence so fine. .' And each man, lull ol roirti ) Feels certain that tho local nUo Is fit to beat tho earth. W ashington Eftsnr If haste is the mark of a weak nAndJ there is reason to believe that the av erage errand boy is profoundly Intel lectuaL Washington JKews. i Aigh "Bingley's wife doesn't provo to bo all that ho fancied she was." Bea "Very likely ; he got her at a bar jain counter." Boston Transcript. With all the modern notions Our great worlds lair Is b,e,t Mr. Cleveland pressed the button ' And Chicago did tho rest. Wosainton Star. "Is Ncwlywed a man that heeds the dictates of his conscience?" "Some- 1 - A 1 A. A A A 1 A t , wam, mil uoj, w me extent no nevus those of,his wife." Bocheatcr Chron icle. It is easier for a man to find his own name in a newspaper wh?n it is there than it is for him to locate a double leaded article with a scare-head. Puck. - " On willlal waste th runiden frowns, . In saving suw teltove ; Bo she constructs oi lat year's eo sta This year cnoru;ou timsm. You can never measure the ifpiritnal irelfare of a .congregation from the height of the church nteeple for which the members havo paid. Detroit Free Press. Nobody likes the man who is always finding fault, but everybody is glad to take advantage of the improvement that his constant kicking brings about. Boston Globe. Do not think, that tho .politician loves you because he th&kes your hand so effusively. After the election, may hap, he will shake you altogether. Boston Transcript. The Csberxnan now ijoncewarl hie, As hsppy as a kin? ; Three halt fish and t-n t.';; lies Are dandling on hi wrier. Ktwmax Ciiy Sonrnnl. Tie average balloonist may not bo more inclined to pay his debts than his fellows, but it must be admitted that "he sometimes 'comes down in a! hurry. Boston Courier. Father "Do you need this diciioa- ary in your school work?" Dollie I "Yes, it's just the thinj to stand on' when I heat my curling iron in tho' gas. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Why should we mite thrte and fret? ' The mwiold'a afire ; IZaca ExcadoT ham its rlolet . Aul every Csa it Uar. . , Detroit Frea Tresst. She "I will never -marry a man whose fortune has not at least fijo ciphers is it." He (triumphantly)- "Oh, darling! Mine is all dpher.,?--'Boston Commercial E oil tin. j mlaft time. 3 rota prys r and bird, lar stirred, thai scattez
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